"He had breasts. Not large ones. Small breasts, like a flat-chested woman temporarily swollen with milk. Then with his red beard, his face of a sunburnt forty-five-year-old man, stern-visaged, long-nosed, thin-lipped, he began to nurse. The baby stopped wailing and sucked greedily." -Marge Piercy, from "Woman on the Edge of Time" (p. 134)

27 April 2006

Democrats called for a 60-day halt on collecting federal gasoline taxes, which are 18.4 cents a gallon...

so much for the theory that the solution to American gas-hogging was that the government could impose higher gas taxes in the US, thus "forcing everyone to conserve"... When will American environmentalists give up their love-affair with capitalism?